How spaghetti breaks and why! It always snaps in at least three pieces when you bend it until it breaks - why not two pieces? Now you know, courtesy of Kottke's web work.
A good article on densely packed Western sprawl was published in the Washington Post a couple of weeks back. It turns out that all those square miles of land filled neatly and tightly with homes and apartments yields cities denser than the older cities in the U.S. that are often credited with a dense, big-city feel. Los Angeles in particular takes the cake, but Las Vegas and Salt Lake also get attention in the article. Who new that Los Angeles is more dense than New York, Washington D.C., and Atlanta?
I found this article at Planetizen, and if you're looking for good interdisciplinary resources, you should keep the site in rotation. They cover lots of interesting material about the development of cities, the changes to land across the world and different social, political and economic trends that impact the way people live.
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